Monthly Archives: November 2010

Gene David Kirk’s production is a rare opportunity for aficionadas of Tennessee Williams to catch up on one of his little known plays. The two characters, brother and sister, are based on Tennessee and his sister, Rose, who had suffered … Continue reading →

J.B. Priestley’s enjoyable farce, set in 1908 and offering a robust mixture of Yorkshire realism and Punch-like caricatures, is one of his best plays, fit to rank alongside An Inspector Calls and Time and the Conways. The situation is neat. … Continue reading →

American playwright Brett Neveu’s loud-mouthed middle-aged blue collar workers, teenage friends, come every year to a Michigan motorbike championship in order to get drunk and stoned and play silly drink games with nasty forfeits. Jo McInnes’s production is well acted. … Continue reading →

Glaswegian playwright D C Jackson discusses the disadvantages of having an affair with colleagues. The events, seen first from the male and then from the female point of view, are engagingly and snappily acted by Iain Robertson and Alison O’Donnell,  … Continue reading →

Pina Bausch and Tantztheater Wuppertal have provided the 20th century with some of its best theatre and the chance to see one of her earliest pieces, dating from 1974, was not to be missed. The choral groupings recall the sculptural … Continue reading →

Glasgow Unity Theatre in 1945 commissioned Ena Lamont Stewart to write a play about the Scottish working class from a woman’s point of view. Stewart was well placed to do so. She had seen the appalling depravation at first hand. … Continue reading →